Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... friends or fortune , yet with high aspirations after professional emi- nence , is striving to weave around him what is tech- nically called " a connexion ? " Such was my case . After having exhausted the slender finances allotted me ...
... friends or fortune , yet with high aspirations after professional emi- nence , is striving to weave around him what is tech- nically called " a connexion ? " Such was my case . After having exhausted the slender finances allotted me ...
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... friends - none of whom I knew where to find in London . Neither my wife nor I knew more than five people besides our India lodger ; for to tell the truth we were , like many a fond and foolish couple before us , all the world to one ...
... friends - none of whom I knew where to find in London . Neither my wife nor I knew more than five people besides our India lodger ; for to tell the truth we were , like many a fond and foolish couple before us , all the world to one ...
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... friends ; and a kind - hearted bookseller , to whom I mentioned the project , assured me that if I went to press my work would fall from it stillborn . When I returned home from making this last attempt , I flung myself into a chair by ...
... friends ; and a kind - hearted bookseller , to whom I mentioned the project , assured me that if I went to press my work would fall from it stillborn . When I returned home from making this last attempt , I flung myself into a chair by ...
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... steadily forward into futurity . I had written several times to my kind and condescending friend Lord who still continued abroad ; but as I knew not 9 to what part of the continent to direct , and C 2 DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN . 29.
... steadily forward into futurity . I had written several times to my kind and condescending friend Lord who still continued abroad ; but as I knew not 9 to what part of the continent to direct , and C 2 DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN . 29.
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... friend , as well as lodger — if you will allow me the liberty . " " Ha ! you think me a rich old hunks come from India to fling his gold at every one he sees . " 66 May I beg an answer , sir ? " said I , after a pause . " I cannot lend ...
... friend , as well as lodger — if you will allow me the liberty . " " Ha ! you think me a rich old hunks come from India to fling his gold at every one he sees . " 66 May I beg an answer , sir ? " said I , after a pause . " I cannot lend ...
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Page 3 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 107 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 108 - I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 120 - Fairest of them all. For his bride a soldier sought her, And a winning tongue had he, On the banks of Allan Water, None so gay as she.
Page 216 - The ghastly visage of death thus leering through the tinselry of fashion — " the vain show" of artificial joy — was a horrible mockery of the fooleries of life ! Indeed it was a most humiliating and shocking spectacle. Poor creature...